What This Blog Is All About

I’m supposed to be writing about TV and popular culture in this blog, but most of the time I’m writing nothing.  With the new TV season finally starting, I guess it’s time I started writing something more along the lines of, well, something.

Because I’m two weeks behind in LOST, I’ll start with my thoughts about the season premiere of Smallville.

Smallville 5x01

How about those new opening credits?  I’m sure a lot of people are going to complain about their being a little too cheesy, but I like them.  They’re slick and colorful, which is what Smallville (and the WB, for that matter), is all about.

The best thing about the new opening credits is that Erika Durance is in them.  For awhile I was afraid that Lois was going to get away, but we should, in theory, be seeing her every week!

As for the episode, it was alright.  The “last survivors of Krypton” thing seemed a little contrived (just like it does every time it gets used), but it worked.  My biggest questions, of course, are how Clark found his way out of the Fortress of Solitude, and how he kept Chloe from getting some serious windburn.

Did anyone else notice that at the end Clark, with no powers, was wearing white?  Regular viewers know that Clark’s clothes are almost always symbolic.  White, in this case, would obviously represent the “new” Clark.  I don’t want to say the “cleansed” Clark, as that would suggest that there was something wrong with his abilities.  No, I think that white is to reflect his new beginning as a normal human. 

Not that he’ll be wearing white all the way through the next episode, but it is was a good way to end the episode.